Waiting Rooms Quotes

• I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hate, Chance, Built

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• If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

  Jules Renard

  Space, House, Would Be

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• Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Faces

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• Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Waiter

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• Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Doing Nothing

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

  Christopher Moore

  Doctors, Boring, Timeless

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.57, Zondervan

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• When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Heart, Giving, Helping

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

  Rick Warren

  Grief, Fishing, People

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

  Jenna Morasca

  Waiting, Rooms, Ominous

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• Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

  Karen Chance

  Hell, Dumped, Waiting

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.51, Penguin

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• Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

  Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

  War, Poetry Is, Waiting

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Immortality, Robes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Years, Wind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

  John C. McGinley

  People, Calm, Terror

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, People, Office

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Thinking, Wish

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• I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.

  Richard Branson

  Night, People, Dying

  "George Negus interviews CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 2, 2008.

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• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Preamble, Significance

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.4, Grove Press

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• You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Grief, Jail

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.147, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Doctors, Years

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.273, Hoover Institution Press

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• Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Airplane, Self Confidence

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Years, Sea

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• The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Hands, Superhero, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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